IBM Quick Deployer automates installing and deploying IBM Jazz solutions: Collaborative Lifecycle Management (CLM) and IoT Continuous Engineering (CE) on Red Hat Linux 6.9+ or Windows Server (2012 and 2016) by using IBM UrbanCode Deploy. Currently the operating system of all VMs in a deployment must be the same. You can use IBM Quick Deployer to deploy CLM 6.0, CLM 6.0.x and CE 6.0.x on user-supplied VMs, either locally or in the cloud. The automation can also install and configure middleware, including IBM WebSphere Application Server or IBM WebSphere Liberty, IBM HTTP Server, and IBM DB2 database server, Oracle database server, or SQL Server database server. IBM Quick Deployer supports the standard Jazz deployment topologies; however, because it uses an UrbanCode Deploy tagging mechanism, you can distribute applications across multiple servers and many different topologies are possible. Currently only new installations are supported and only one instance of each Jazz application is supported per topology. Upgrade support is being considered for future releases.

IBM Quick Deployer is developed and used internally by the CLM DevOps pipeline team. IBM Quick Deployer provides a flexible mechanism for building topologies and easily switching between deployment platforms. IBM Quick Deployer is available as an unsupported utility that can be downloaded from Jazz.net, so you can now use the same automation to deploy and configure new installations in your own environment. IBM Quick Deployer removes the need to understand all the middleware and application configuration details, eliminates human error, conforms to recommended topologies, and provides a repeatable process.

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Throughout the IBM Quick Deployer wiki the screen captures are for reference only. In some cases if the functionality they display has not changed in the latest release they will be from a previous release